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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear...
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This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent - which is known from other contexts - is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339674
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent - which is known from other contexts - is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001573373
hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the other hand. The latter establishes an exporter wage premium, since … in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries … ; Heterogeneous firms ; Fair wages ; Labour market imperfections ; Exporter wage premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404745
, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581985
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zoneʺ where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001595502
This paper analyzes the degree of short-run, real wage flexibility in a two-sector economy under floating rates. This is done by deriving optimal wage indexation in a contracting framework. We find that the more closed the economy, the lower the degree of wage indexation. As a result, output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219727
This paper analyzes the degree of short-run, real wage flexibility in a two-sector economy under floating rates. This is done by deriving optimal wage indexation in a contracting framework. We find that the more closed the economy, the lower the degree of wage indexation. As a result, output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477994